It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

A good liar must have a good memory.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, The Bores and the Bored.

A jug fills drop by drop.